WCP3327

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309 Regent Street

London W.

29 March 1913

Sir Alfred Russel Wallace O.M.; F.R.S.; D.C.L.

Dear Sir

Yesterday I read your name in "Public Opinion" as the author of Character and life. I beg you pardon if I do mistake. I have heard about a famous author called "Wallace" who has written a very interesting book which I am very sorry to say I have not been able to read and even I don't know its exact name in English but it will be nearly these "The Wonderful century or the nineteenth century". The author, it is said, has explained among many others, the new ideas about "Nebtune[sic] and Uranus" as if these planets are turning around the sun in a different or contrary direction than the others. I do not[2] hope that you will have time enough to spend for me, whether you are or not the same person with that book's author, to explain the question in its all particulars so I will be glad if you please only to say, is there really such an idea accepted by recent astronomers? is it only observed or is it explained by an entirely new solar system? (I mean the origin of the planets)

I am not an English man as you can see from my writing. I have come here to learn English. I was a teacher in our country "Armenia", it is only a few months that I am here. I shall return here again as soon as possible to continue my work. I am much interested in scientific and psychological questions. I hope you will enlighten me in this subject.

I am faithfully yours | Haig Srabian [signature]